Morality, Culture, and History: Essays on German Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Raymond Geuss

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 214
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Raymond Geuss is the author of The Idea of a Critical Theory (CUP 1981), a now classic study of the philosophy of the Frankfurt School, and has been a distinctive contributor to the analysis and evaluation of German philosophy and to recent debates in ethics. In this new collection he treats a variety of topics in ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of history with special reference to the work of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Adorno.

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